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I came across a situation where user is trying to search documents selecting the option “search in same site” instead of “all sites” from search box and getting no result where as can find documents from other library with in same site.

Why such happens ?

The first point comes to mind for search error is content not crawled, indexing not done for this situation.

Yes , its true but we need to think why ?

As per my investigation I found the setting of the library as below

By default SharePoint only crawls major versions of files and draft items are only viewable by their creators. SharePoint is behaving as expected out of box.Draft items are not crawled in SharePoint

#Gets the Search Service Application
$SSA = Get-SPServiceApplication -Name $SearchServiceName;
if (!$?){throw “Cant find a Search Service Application: "$SearchServiceName“”;}#Gets the Search Service Instance on the Specified Server
$Instance = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $Server;
if (!$?){throw “Cant find a Search Service Instance on Server: "$Server“”;}#Gets the current Search Topology
$Current = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $SSA -Active;
if (!$?){throw “There is no Active Topology, you can try removing the "-Active” from the line above in the script”;}#Creates a Copy of the current Search Topology
$Clone = New-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Clone -SearchApplication $SSA -SearchTopology $Current;#Adds a new Index Component with the new Index Location
New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent -SearchTopology $Clone -IndexPartition 0 -SearchServiceInstance $Instance -RootDirectory $IndexLocation | Out-Null;
if (!$?){throw “Make sure that Index Location "$IndexLocation” exists on Server: "$Server“”;}#Sets our new Search Topology as Active
Set-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Identity $Clone;#Removes the old Search Topology
Remove-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Identity $Current -Confirm:$false;#Now we need to remove the extra Index Component#Gets the Search Topology
$Current = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $SSA -Active;#Creates a copy of the current Search Topology
$Clone=New-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Clone -SearchApplication $SSA -SearchTopology $Current;#Removes the old Index Component from the Search Topology
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchComponent -SearchTopology $Clone | ? {($.GetType().Name -eq “IndexComponent”) -and ($.ServerName -eq $($Instance.Server.Address)) -and ($_.RootDirectory -ne $IndexLocation)} | Remove-SPEnterpriseSearchComponent -SearchTopology $Clone -Confirm:$false;#Sets our new Search Topology as Active
Set-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Identity $Clone;#Removes the old Search Topology
Remove-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Identity $Current -Confirm:$False;
Write-Host “The Index has been moved to $IndexLocation on $Server”
Write-Host “This will not remove the data from the old index location. You will have to do that manually :)”
}
Move-SPEnterpriseSearchIndex -SearchServiceName “Search Service Application” -Server “SP2013-WFE” -IndexLocation “C:Index”

SharePoint 2013 places the Search index in the C: by default. There are many reasons why you would want to move the index to a different places.
This script will take three parameters, the Search Service Name, the Server Name and Index Location. There is an example on the bottom of the script.